Read/Write FTP Issues

by noodle24

Posted: 17 years ago 3 replies

PROGRAMMING

I'm trying to install the xml-sitemaps.com tool through FTP for a client.

I'm having a problem changing the read/write information using Filezilla.

I right-click the file and hit "File attributes". Then, I change the numeric value to 666 and I receive the following error...

Command: SITE CHMOD 666 sitemap.xml
Response: 500 'SITE CHMOD 666 sitemap.xml': command not understood

Any ideas?

#ftp #issues #read or write

rwil02 17 years ago

Is it a *nix server, or a windows server?
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noodle24 17 years ago

It's a Windows Server.
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awesometbn 17 years ago

Hello noodle24,
Unix boxes understand chmod but Windows boxes don't. The error you saw earlier was a 500 internal server error. The permissions you are trying to set with chmod 666 means you want read/write for user, group, and world. The Windows box might only allow you to set read/write permissions for everybody in the cgi-bin subdirectory. If you change subdirectories to cgi or cgi-bin does that help? Also you need to find out if you can alter permissions on files from the web hosting side, instead of from the FTP side. For example, change permissions on files after they have been uploaded using the web hosting administration panel.
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